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[tip/core/rcu,25/26] xtensa: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

Message ID 1346360743-3628-25-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
State Accepted
Commit 11ad47a0edbd62bfc0547cfcdf227a911433f207
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Paul E. McKenney Aug. 30, 2012, 9:05 p.m. UTC 
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

In the old times, the whole idle task was considered
as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and
more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical
section have been added even in the code of some
architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example.

So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must
be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part
in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side
critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU
in low power mode.

This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in
idle in order to complete grace periods.

Add this missing pair of calls in the xtensa's idle loop.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: 3.2.x.. <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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 arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Comments

Josh Triplett Sept. 1, 2012, 12:05 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 02:05:42PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> 
> In the old times, the whole idle task was considered
> as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and
> more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical
> section have been added even in the code of some
> architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example.
> 
> So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must
> be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part
> in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side
> critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU
> in low power mode.
> 
> This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in
> idle in order to complete grace periods.
> 
> Add this missing pair of calls in the xtensa's idle loop.
> 
> Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
> Cc: 3.2.x.. <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

>  arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c b/arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c
> index 2c8d6a3..bc44311 100644
> --- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c
> @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
>  #include <linux/mqueue.h>
>  #include <linux/fs.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
> +#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/pgtable.h>
>  #include <asm/uaccess.h>
> @@ -110,8 +111,10 @@ void cpu_idle(void)
>  
>  	/* endless idle loop with no priority at all */
>  	while (1) {
> +		rcu_idle_enter();
>  		while (!need_resched())
>  			platform_idle();
> +		rcu_idle_exit();
>  		schedule_preempt_disabled();
>  	}
>  }
> -- 
> 1.7.8
>
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diff --git a/arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c b/arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c
index 2c8d6a3..bc44311 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ 
 #include <linux/mqueue.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -110,8 +111,10 @@  void cpu_idle(void)
 
 	/* endless idle loop with no priority at all */
 	while (1) {
+		rcu_idle_enter();
 		while (!need_resched())
 			platform_idle();
+		rcu_idle_exit();
 		schedule_preempt_disabled();
 	}
 }